{"id":9732,"date":"2025-09-09T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9732\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:04:08","slug":"kerry-katona-45-reveals-she-was-going-to-become-an-escort-with-her-mum-at-16-before-landing-a-page-3-modelling-job-as-she-details-her-tumultuous-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9732\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Katona, 45, reveals she was going to ‘become an escort with her mum’ at 16 before landing a Page 3 modelling job as she details her tumultuous childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kerry Katona<\/a> has revealed that she almost became an escort with her mum at 16 years old before she landed a Page 3 modeling job.<\/p>\n

The Atomic Kitten Star, 45, opened up about her tumultuous childhood and how her early career began when she was in her mid-teens.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the latest episode of Paul C. Brunson’s podcast, We Need To Talk, she\u00a0 revealed that she hoped to become a Page 3 model as she ‘wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist’.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘I had a great set of t**s. Like, I’d been modeling since I was three\u2026 so I was, like, a really good-looking kid, you know, and I had these great boobs.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her mother, Sue, had sent off her portfolio of pictures, with the photographer asking if she’d be interested in doing topless photos.<\/p>\n

Paul then asked the star to turn the topic back to the topless snaps for her portfolio, with Kerry admitting it was purely ‘her idea’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kerry <\/p>\n

Kerry Katona has revealed that she almost became an escort with her mum at 16 years old during an appearance on\u00a0Paul C. Brunson’s podcast, We Need To Talk<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The Atomic Kitten Star, 45, opened up about her tumultuous childhood and how her early career began when she was in her mid-teens (pictured with mum Sue in 2018)<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The singer revealed that she hoped to become a Page 3 model as she ‘wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist’<\/p>\n

The singer, who said she knew from a young age that she was going to be famous,\u00a0 said she was\u00a0even thinking about being an escort at the time.<\/p>\n

Kerry explained: ‘I even was gonna sign up to be an escort,’<\/p>\n

‘My mum took me into a sex shop. I didn’t end up doing it\u2026 Well, there was a photographer and mum didn’t end up coming, that’s all I can say..’<\/p>\n

Pausing to collect her emotions, Kerry continued:\u00a0‘And he convinced me to do open leg shots – but I’ve gone back to doing it on OnlyFans, gone back to my roots – and that came back to haunt me then, when I became famous, he sold all those pictures.<\/p>\n

‘And Brian paid a fortune to try getting removed, and then I ended up going on OnlyFans and doing it anyways, the irony\u2026’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kerry is currently dating personal trainer Paolo Magaglione, 33, and has reportedly moved him into her home just two months after they met on Celebs Go Dating.<\/p>\n

Prior to this she was in a six and a half year relationship with fianc\u00e9 Ryan Mahoney before they split at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

She was reportedly planning to have a child with Ryan before they split.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The singer, who said she knew from a young age that she was going to be famous, said she was even thinking about being an escort at the time<\/p>\n

\"Kerry <\/p>\n

Kerry explained: ‘I even was gonna sign up to be an escort,’ ‘My mum took me into a sex shop. I didn’t end up doing it\u2026 Well, there was a photographer and mum didn’t end up coming, that’s all I can say..’<\/p>\n

Kerry has daughters Molly, 22 and Lilly, 20 with her ex husband Brian McFadden who she was married to from 2002\u20132006.<\/p>\n

She is also mum to Heidi, 17, and Max, 15, with ex husband Mark Croft and eight-year-old DJ from her relationship with the late George Kay.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her upbringing on We Need To Talk, Kerry said: ‘There were always fights.<\/p>\n

‘I mean, the things I saw my mum do I can’t even repeat because it’s so cruel. So cruel, some of the things I witnessed as a kid.’<\/p>\n

She recalled one ex of her mother’s who she instantly felt uneasy around.<\/p>\n

Kerry explained: ‘I had to pretend, had to call him dad. And I just had this instant fear of Dave, instant fear of him, like terrified of him.<\/p>\n

‘And I remember him walking in my bedroom – and the first time I met him, he just fell flat on his face, drunk. I knew I had to pretend and laugh, because I knew his aura. I could tell the kind of man he was going to be.<\/p>\n

‘This one time, I\u2019d be seven or eight, maybe eight – babysitting on stale ketchup butties, because my mum was going on the p**s for three days. And I used to go do shopping by myself\u2026<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on her childhood, she concluded: ‘The situations I\u2019ve been put in as a child are, some of them are unspeakable. Some of them are so unspeakable that no child should ever be in, ever’<\/p>\n

‘But this one time I remember I was in bed, my mum had been out, and she came in and she sat next to me and said, “Dave asked me to marry him.”<\/p>\n

‘I went, “Don’t do it, mum\u2026 He’s going to beat you. He’s really going to beat you up.” She went, “Kerry, 16 years, he’s never laid a finger on me.”<\/p>\n

‘The next night, she came home, black and blue, and she had the side of a shotgun to her head.’<\/p>\n

Kerry ended up going into witness protection with her mother as they attempted to flee the abuse.<\/p>\n

‘We had to go into hiding,’ she explained. ‘And that’s when we got put\u2026 and I remember, because of who Dave was, and I remember the social services, or whoever it was who came to get us, like witness protection.<\/p>\n

‘We had to go into hiding, and me mum had to dye her hair\u2026 and we ended up in Manchester in a refuge.<\/p>\n

‘At one point, I couldn’t go to school in case Dave kidnapped me, so I had to get home schooled.’<\/p>\n

It was later in life that she was told by a foster parent that Dave was in fact her biological father.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on her childhood, she concluded: ‘The situations I\u2019ve been put in as a child are, some of them are unspeakable. Some of them are so unspeakable that no child should ever be in, ever.’<\/p>\n

Part one of Kerry Katona on We Need To Talk is out now. Part two was released on September 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kerry Katona has revealed that she almost became an escort with her mum at 16 years old before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10225,1793,539,93,61,60,1794,1796,1489,4621],"class_list":{"0":"post-9732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brian-mcfadden","9":"tag-celebs-go-dating","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kerry-katona","15":"tag-ryan-mahoney","16":"tag-tvshowbiz","17":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}